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Mac OS X Kernel Source Now Closed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nice-while-it-lasted dept.

littleghoti writes "Macworld is reporting that "Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system." Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code."

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  1. fp? by hotblack296 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP?

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  2. The final straw... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...was when those Somalis attacked that cruise liner.

  3. Mod Parent Up! plzkthx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks, you're 100% on target.

  4. Re:Duh! by Ithika · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would they be orange sunglasses?

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  5. Re:Well that sucks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try to get out of your cave at least once every 5 years. It might prevent you from making stupid statements like that.

  6. goggles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "My eyes...the goggles do nothing!"

  7. :'( no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    :'(

    me no want this

  8. Re:Software pirates won't care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Female /.'er? Umm...marry me?

  9. Re:Software pirates won't care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One word: Fatty.

  10. Yes but... by Flying+pig · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Does it run Linux?

    Yes, I do know the answer to that one:
    if you can get the drivers.

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  11. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and jews.

  12. Re:devil's advocate by m50d · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    While I realize that this is /., and that /. is "supposed" to be for that 1% of the computer using market that speaks in lanquage the "norms" can't understand, but seriously would like to know why should I care?

    You've answered yourself. If you don't want to care, no-ones stopping you finding another website, it's not as if there's a shortage of them. Perhaps you could show a little common courtesy and not try and spoil it for those of us who do, but I guess that's too much to ask for these days.

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